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This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

9,000 years of carnal history is on display at China's original Museum of Sex.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

A cableway for car transport.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.